Picture holding device for album leaves



Nov. 17, 1931. J, C, S HULZ 1,832,249

PICTURE HOLDING DEVICE FOR ALBUM LEAVES Filed Marqh 7. 1931 Patented Nov; 17, 1931 1 unwise-stars ;AT ENT" orric'n JOHN G. scnULz, or onroeeo, rumors, AssIGNon '10 nAsTMerrKonAK COMPANY, or I nocnnsrnn, new roan, A CORPORATION ornnw rom;

PIcTURE fioLDlNG DEVICE FOR ALBUM LEAVES Application filed. March 7, 1931. Serial No. 520,975."

mg a second picture to the picture-holding device of the opposite support. Another object is to provide two corner pockets for supporting pictures on opposite sides of a support and to provide a cut-out guideway which will assist in directing a corner of a picture into a pocket in which another picturecorner.

has already been inserted and other objects will appear from the following specification, the novel features being particularly pointed out in the claims at the end thereof.

Coming now to the drawings wherein like reference characters denote hke parts throughout Fig. 1 is a plan view of an album leaf including picture-holding devices constructed in accordance with the embodying a preferred form of my invention; and

Fig. 2 is a perspective enlarged fragmen-.

tary view showing in detail a corner pocket constructed in accordance with a preferred embodiment of my invention; and

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detailed section taken on line 33 of Fig. 2.

In accordance with the drawings of this invention a preferred embodiment may consist of an album leaf 1 which is provided with a weakened line 2 and reinforced edge '3.

There are apertures 4; for holding the sheet in a suitable container. 7 A a This sheet preferably consists of a single thickness of material and may have one or more sets of picture-holding devices formed.

integrally with the sheet.

One set of picture-holding devices may consist of corner pockets. The other set of 'picture holding devices 6 may consist of straps or diagonal members also adapted to hold the corners of a picture.

Referring especially to Fig. 2 the pictureholcling devices 5 may consist of triangular shapedareas of the sheet 1 embossed by bonding an area 7 outwardly from the sheet, there being angnlarly disposed walls 8 connecting the sheet to the area 7 which lies outside of the plane of sheet 1. Y

The picture-holding device 6 may consist of a strip of paper formed by two parallel cuts each through thesheet 1 and having an area 10 embossed from the plane of sheet 1 in an Opposite direction to the embossing 7, area 10 being preferably formed withdiagonal walls-11 corresponding to the diagonal walls 8 except that they extend in an opposite'direction from the sheet 1. Along one edge of a cut 9 there is atriangular cut-out area 12 formed by two converging cuts 13. This removes a small section of the material of sheet 1.1

As will be obvious from the above description film-holding devices may be formed on both sides of a single sheet integral with the sheet by a single embossing op'erationwhich embosses the walls of the two picture-holding devices in opposite directions. Normally there will be four of these picture-holding devices to form a set for holding a single picture. The number of sets of-picture-holding devices will, of course, be determined by the number of corners on a picture. In some few instances it may be desirable to form sets of three for triangular shaped pic tures but normally four will be required as in properly positioning the prints but the cutout 12 is very useful in positioning the second 7 picture after a firstprint has been inserted. The triangular cut-out portion 12 is of no great value in inserting the first print.

In'an album of leaves made as shown in stanrebe'cause of the rather thin sheet material l ofwh ch such album leaves are usually made there is a tendency for the embossings to flatten out and again approach the plane of the material or support from which they are made.

In using my inventionthe procedure is as follows: A print P having been placed under one of thepicture-holding devices here shown as 5 (in Fig. 3) a second print P2 can be readily introduced into the picture-holding device on the opposite side of the sheet by sliding the corner P of the print through the. cutout l2 and into the opposite pictureholding device, the corner P of the print sliding along the baclrB of the print P. Thus the cut-out portion 12'serves as an entrance for the corners of one print and permits it to slide on the back of an oppositely mounted print so that if by any chance one of the embossedpicture-holding devices 5 or 10 should have become depressed again toward the plane support 1 it will still not be difficult to enter the print into the pictureholding device. I

I am aware that it is broadly old to provide a pair of diagonal cuts for holding two prints on opposite sides of a support. The present invention, however, is for an improvement over this construction in that the two sets of picture-holding devices are embossed in opposite directions away from the sheet material and in addition there is provided the cut-out portion 12 whichpermits the corners of a second print to slide against the back of the first print into its proper position into i which the corners may be held by the diagonal strap 10. r e i 7 Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A mount for pictures adapted to be supported on opposite sides of a single sheet of supporting material comprising a plurality of spaced picture-holding devices, each of which comprises a pair of d1ss1m1lar oppositely embossed picture holders, one extending to one side of the supporting sheet and the other extending to the other side thereof, one of said embossings being separated from the other and from the supporting sheet by cuts one of which includes a cut-out portion adjacent the cut, whereby a corner of a print to be entered into one embossing may slide against the back of a print previously entered in the other embossing on the opposite side of said supporting shee 2. A mount'for pictures to be carried on opposite sides of a support comprising a supporting member, picture-holding devices integral therewith bounded in part by a pair of parallel diagonal slots at each of four spaced positions and having a cut-outarea adjacent on one side of one slot, the plctureholding devices including cornersembossed" from the support for holding corners of a photograph on one side of the support, and

including diagonally extending members lying between the spaced cuts and embossed from the sheet in a direction opposite to the embossing of the corner pockets, said cut-out February, 1931.

JOHN C. SCHULZ. 

